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Other weird things, like it's faster to send stuff around a data center than it is to write to local disk (not just latency either, but sometimes throughput too
by dmoy 9y ago
Other weird things, like it's faster to send stuff around a data center than it is to write to local disk (not just latency either, but sometimes throughput too). Actually depending on how good the network is, it's probably faster to send stuff to a different data center than it is to write to local disk.
- icebraining 9y agoHence https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs :)
- hyperpape 9y agoFun coincidence: Dan links to a post of his about how fast networks change storage from the article we’re discussing. https://danluu.com/infinite-disk/ https://danluu.com/infinite-disk/
- gmueckl 9y agoIt gets really crazy when you realise that it is faster to distribute localized data in a compute cluster over multiple nodes over the network for IO than to just dump them to the local disk.